Total RNA was extracted and purified using RecoverAllTM Total Nucleic Acid Isolation (Cat#AM1975, Ambion, Austin, TX, US) following the manufacturer’s instructions. Then, the total RNA was amplified, labeled and purified by
Affymetrix WT PLUS Reagent Kit (Cat#902280, Affymetrix, Santa Clara, CA, US),
Ovation FFPE WTA System (Cat#3403, NuGEN, San Carlos, CA, US) and
FL-Ovation™ cDNA Biotin Module V2 (Cat#4200, NuGEN, San Carlos, CA, US). Array hybridization and washing was performed using GeneChip
® Hybridization, Wash and Stain Kit (Cat#900720, Affymetrix, Santa Clara, CA, US) in a
Hybridization Oven 645 (Cat#00-0331-220V, Affymetrix, Santa Clara, CA, US) and a
Fluidics Station 450 (Cat#00-0079, Affymetrix, Santa Clara, CA, US). Arrays were scanned by Affymetrix GeneChip
® Scanner 3000 (Cat#00-00213, Affymetrix, Santa Clara, CA, US) to obtain raw data. The raw data were normalized by
Expression Console software of Affymetrix company. After normalization, the fold changes and p-values of different genes were calculated by the formula: foldchange = average (power (2, signal (FTC)))/average (power (2, signal (BTL))) and t-test separately. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were reported if the fold change was >2 or <0.5 and the p-value was smaller than 0.05. At last, Unsupervised consensus clustering was performed by R package “pheatmap” to obtain the heatmap of DEGs.
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